Jim Mickle (born 1979)[1] is an American director and writer, known for such films as Mulberry Street, Stake Land, We Are What We Are and Cold in July.

[3] Mickle prefers directing and editing to writing, and he is attracted to the flexibility and intensity of horror films.

This concept eventually morphed into their first collaboration, Mulberry Street, a horror film about gentrification in New York City.

[3] Mickle's second film, Stake Land, was a New York Times Critics' Pick.

[7] He directed the film adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's novel Cold in July, in which Michael C. Hall starred,[8][9] and has worked on Esperanza, the story of a fatal wildfire in southern California, adapted by Sean O'Keefe from a book by John N.